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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

Alvin Toffler

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Change Communication Fire
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Lying Responsibility Teaching
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Adaptable Individual Shock
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order

A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

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